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Thu, 21 Feb 2008
X and KDE out of sync - 17:59
So a new Dell Latitude D430 one of the academics at work has was showing some
problems with getting X to work as we wanted. It is now running Gutsy, which
seemed to not pick up on the intel video driver at first when I removed the
i810 driver. However the more annoying thing I found in this setup is that
when there is no xorg.conf kdm works fine, however kde reverts to some lower
resolution. Although I can change that with xrandr, if I try going into kde
display resolution settings they do not work if there is no xorg.conf.
In the last while the Xorg crew have been doing some great work to ensure X
will generally run better with no config file around, working things out as it
starts up and all that. However kde (at least the version in Kubuntu 7.10) has
not caught up to the idea of querying the X server or working with it to that
extent yet.
I hope the newer kde releases are heading this way, also I should check out
gnome and see if it handles this cleaner. One thing I should note though is
xrandr really is seriously cool. I found the
thinkwiki xrandr
page to be one of the best for describing cool stuff it can do.
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